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Tuesday, 29 November 2011

Outdated Slang

When did people stop saying...

aficionado (Very 80s. Nobody could spell it.)Ah hae me doots!, I must dree my weird, och aye the noo, hoots mon, it’s a braw bricht moonlicht nicht the nicht and other pseudo-Scotticisms (thank heavens it's over)and in that orderblast from the pastbonce (head) boo boo, boob (we boobed)brains of a prawncake-hole (mouth) card-carrying (it was an insult)cascading (popular 80s 90s? Bit like the trickle-down effect)colour me (beautiful, over-eager)control freakDon’t be such a lazybones! (or slow coach)eventually (now finally)going sparegrands projets (and insisting that we build them because they’re iconic and will raise our self-esteem or something)gumptionhigh campI just thought I’d share that with you.I reckonI’ll drink to thatin effect (and “effectively”)It’s all go!It’s an old Spanish custom.kick up a fussLess of it! make the runningmost notablyparticularly (now especially – bleurgh)play silly buggerspo-facedPut that in your pipe and smoke it!raft, slewrip-offroad warrior – because now everybody works on the moveSee you later, alligator! In a while, crocodile!snug as a bug in a rugso far so blahswingeing cuts (now “brutal”)That was a (real) killer.The answer is a lemon.The exception proves the rule.think onthreads(clothes)tools for skills (very 80s – skills were 70s)weak-willed/strong-willed (All you need is willpower. Now self esteem. Just as imaginary.)wet, don't be sowhat a giveaway!What’s YOUR problem? (70s)you mug! (Cameron to Mili Ed)You silly clot!